{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:30:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction to the Public History Program\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zeqjwkuf004?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-79 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1242\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaronshapiro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2012\/10\/IMG_1242-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>A Chicago native, Aaron Shapiro serves as Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNCC. He started and directed the public history program at Auburn University and previously served as national historian for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\">US Forest Service<\/a> in Washington, DC, where he was involved with a wide variety of public history projects including historical films, websites, oral histories, interpretive planning, exhibit development, historic preservation, and heritage tourism initiatives. In addition, Shapiro worked on collections management and federal records issues and regularly provided historical policy papers for staff. As agency historian, he developed relationships with interagency and non-profit partners to further the goals of the agency history program. Before joining the Forest Service, Shapiro was Assistant Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newberry.org\/dr-william-m-scholl-center-american-history-and-culture\">Scholl Center for Family and Community History<\/a> at Chicago &#8216;s Newberry Library. At the Newberry he served as academic director for two Department of Education Teaching American History grants, working cooperatively with the Chicago Public Schools and Chicago-area cultural and non-profit institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro received his MA and PhD in History from the <a href=\"http:\/\/history.uchicago.edu\/\">University of Chicago<\/a> and a BA in History from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.upenn.edu\/\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a>. He is particularly interested in questions regarding the intersection of people and place, changing perspectives of the cultural and natural landscape, and connections between memory, heritage, and public historical interpretation. His research explores questions about the history of land use and environmental change, modern environmental politics, the relationship between work and leisure, and broader cultural transformations in twentieth century urban and rural America.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Education<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BA, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>PhD, MA, University of Chicago<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Recent Publications <\/b>\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Book <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-lure-of-the-north-woods\">The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest<\/a> <\/i>(University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Winner of the Midwestern History Association\u2019s Jon Gjerde Award for best book on Midwestern history published in a calendar year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>&nbsp;Journal Articles and Book Chapters<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp; \u201c\u2018Follow the Arrows to the Arrowhead\u2019: The Environment of Tourism in the Interwar Years.\u201d In George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells, eds, <em>Nature&#8217;s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota<\/em>, Under contract with the History of the Urban Environment series, ed. Martin Melosi and Joel Tarr, University of Pittsburgh Press.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;\u201cA Grand Experiment: USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges\u201d in Deborah Hayes,&nbsp;&nbsp; Susan Stout, Ralph Crawford, and Anne Hoover eds., <em>USDA Forest Service Experimental&nbsp; Forests and Ranges<\/em>: <em>Research for the Long Term <\/em>(Springer, 2014), 3-23.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;&#8216;Air Conditioned by the Cool Breezes of Lake Superior&#8217;: Vacationing in Michigan&#8217;s Copper Country After World War Two,&#8221; in Kim Hoagland, Terry Reynolds, and Erik Nordberg, eds.,&nbsp;<i>New Perspectives on Michigan&#8217;s Copper Country&nbsp;<\/i>(Houghton, MI: Quincy Mine Hoist Association, 2007), 135-152.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Up North on Vacation: Tourism and Resorts in Wisconsin &#8216;s North Woods,&#8221; <i>Wisconsin Magazine of History <\/i>(Summer 2006): 2-13.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp; &#8220;Promoting Cloverland: Regional Associations, State Agencies, and the Creation of Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula Tourist Industry,&#8221;&nbsp;<i>Michigan Historical Review&nbsp;<\/i>29 (Spring 2003): 1-37.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Encyclopedia Essays<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWisconsin Dells, Indiana Dunes, Ozarks, and Spas\u201d in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds., <i>The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia <\/i>(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Book Reviews<\/b><\/p>\n<p>William Boyd, <em>The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American&nbsp; South<\/em> in <em>Enterprise and Society<\/em> 18 (March 2017): 242-244.<\/p>\n<p>Michael R. Federspiel with contemporary photographs by Rebecca Zeiss. <em>Little Traverse Bay: Past and Present<\/em> in <em>Middle West Review<\/em> 3 (Fall 2016): 152-154.<\/p>\n<p>John F. Freeman, <em>Black Hills Forestry: A History<\/em> in <em>Pacific Historical Review<\/em> 85 (August 2016): 458-459.<\/p>\n<p>Mason C. Carter, Robert Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger, <em>Forestry in the U.S. South: A History<\/em> in <em>North Carolina Historical Review <\/em>XCIII (July 2016): 352-353.<\/p>\n<p>James R. Skillen, <em>Federal Ecosystem Management Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife<\/em> in <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 38 (May 2016): 109-111.<\/p>\n<p>David R. Foster, ed. <em>Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge<\/em> in <em>Environmental History<\/em> (October 2015): 843-845<\/p>\n<p>Char Miller, <em>Seek.ing the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot<\/em>, in <em>Agricultural History<\/em> (Summer 2015): 466-468.<\/p>\n<p>David M. Wrobel, <em>Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression<\/em> in <em>Chronicles of Oklahoma <\/em>(Winter 2014-15): 499-501.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Mittlefehldt, <em>Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics <\/em>in <em>North Carolina Historical Review<\/em> (July 2014): 376.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Koll Healey, <em>Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West<\/em> in <em>Environmental History<\/em> (April&nbsp; 2014): 401-403.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Stroud, <em>Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast <\/em>in <em>Environmental History <\/em>(October 2013): 811-812.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Widick, <i>Trouble in the Forest: California\u2019s Redwood Wars <\/i>in <i>Environmental History <\/i>17 (October 2012): 883-885.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas R. Cox, <i>The Lumberman\u2019s Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America\u2019s Forests <\/i>in <i>Environmental History <\/i>16 (April 2011): 364-365.<\/p>\n<p>Char Miller, <i>Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture <\/i>in <i>Environmental History <\/i>14 (July 2009): 571-572.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Harrison, <i>The View From Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape <\/i>in <i>Environmental History <\/i>12 (July 2007): 692-693.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Selected Public History Projects <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Project Director, <em>Preserving Memory in a Digital Age: Charlotte-Eastern Europe Cemetery Experience<\/em>, 2016-2020, Funded by a $47,500 grant from the Blumenthal Foundation and $7500 grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Curator, Undergraduate Student Exhibitions for Carolina Actors Studio Theatre\u2019s performance of <em>Angels in America<\/em>, Charlotte, NC, May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.auburn.edu\/forestry\/\">USDA Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) Oral History Project<\/a>, August 2012-September 2013. ($30,000 contract).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warmemorial.auburn.edu\/\">Auburn University Virtual War Memorial<\/a>, July 2011-August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organizer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cla.auburn.edu\/publichistory\/\">Intersections and Meeting Grounds: Public History and Community Conference<\/a>, February 17-18, 2012, Auburn, AL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Grand Experiment: 100 Years of Experimental Forests and Ranges and Counting.\u201d Film Advisor and Script Development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwdc.library.wisc.edu\/collections\/FPLHist\">U.S. Forest Products Lab Centennial Oral History Project<\/a>, A Cooperative Project of the USDA Forest Service, USDA Forest Products Lab, University of Wisconsin Oral History Program, and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Modern United States, public history, environmental history, global heritage, historic preservation, history and new media, and oral history.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Courses Taught (UNCC and Auburn University)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LBST 2101 Cities and Nature<\/p>\n<p>HIST 2135 Museums and Historic Sites<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3004: Topics in Applied History: Introduction to Public History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3252\/AMST 3050 US Since 1932<\/p>\n<p>HIST 4000 American Environmental History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 6310 Museum Studies<\/p>\n<p>HIST 6320 Historic Preservation<\/p>\n<p>HIST 6330 History in the Digital Age<\/p>\n<p>HIST 6894 Readings in History-Museum Administration<\/p>\n<p>HIST 2020 US History, 1865-Present<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3550 American Environmental History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3800 Historian\u2019s Craft<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3970 History of the American West<\/p>\n<p>HIST 3970 Forest and Agricultural History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 4950 Senior Thesis<\/p>\n<p>HIST 4967 Honors Special Problems<\/p>\n<p>HIST 5810\/6810 Fundamentals of Public History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 5820 Historic Preservation and Cultural Resource Management<\/p>\n<p>HIST 5970\/6970 Museum Studies<\/p>\n<p>HIST 7180 Seminar in Modern US History<\/p>\n<p>HIST 7810 Research Seminar in US History Since 1865<\/p>\n<p>HIST 7910 Public History Internship<\/p>\n<p>HIST 7970 Digital History and New Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago native, Aaron Shapiro serves as Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNCC. 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